W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.”
Source: 101 Facts of life
“We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
“We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.”
“We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.”
“We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.”
“We will have a mechanism for dealing with people in this country that - you heard the word humanely again. It is going to be fair. It is going to be tough. But there will be no path to legalization, no path to citizenship unless people leave the country.”
“We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.”
Source: Blood of the Liberals
“We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it.”
“We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in this country: peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, benevolent sharing, love, the easing of human suffering.
Is that going to be our list of priorities or not?”
“We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.”
Source: The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future
“We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.”
“We will have gone from men telling us condescendingly to not bother our pretty little heads about important things like politics, to not bothering our pretty little heads without even being told not to! The suffragettes struggled and suffered so much on our behalf; what a travesty of everything they stood for, if we simply look away as though we can't be bothered.”
“We will have health care reform in America.”
“We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.”
“We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.”
“We will have no jobs if we have no planet.”
“We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.”
“We will have rings and things and fine array”
“We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.”
Source: Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution
“We will have times of great openings, and other times where we feel a sense of restriction, or our flow being blocked”
“We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.”
“We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.”
“We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.”
Source: Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work
“We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.”
Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
“We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.”
“We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.”
“We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.”
“We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.”
Source: The origin of life
“We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match.”
“We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.”
“We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.”
“We will have to reckon with the old assumption that we can preserve the natural world by protecting wilderness areas while we neglect or destroy the economic landscapes—the farms and ranches and working forests—and the people who use them. That assumption is understandable in view of the worsening threats to wilderness areas, but it is wrong. If conservationists hope to save even the wild lands and wild creatures, they are going to have to address issues of economy, which is to say issues of the health of the landscapes and the towns and cities where we do our work, and the quality of that work, and the well-being of the people who do the work.”
Source: The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.”
Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage
“We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.”
“We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.”
Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt
“We will have to work around the world with less than ideal governments. The government in Saudi Arabia is not a democracy, but we will have to work with them. The government in Jordan is not perfect, but we will have to work with them. But anti-American dictators like [Bashar] Assad, who help Hezbollah, who helped get those IEDs into Iraq, if they go, I will not shed a tear.”
“We will have to work hard to rest.”
Source: Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
“We will hear more details on [Donald] Trump`s plans on addressing illegal immigration in the speech tonight, including what Trump plans to do about those 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S.”
“We will immediately lift the suspension of uranium enrichment and will halt implementation of the Additional Protocol.”
“We will implement this consent decree because we know that it is in the best interests of our city that the police department and the community are working together so that we can resolve many of the issues that we face in our community.”
“We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.”
“We will, in truth, spend many of our hours alone with our grief. In the cover of our solitude, we encounter another layer in our apprenticeship with sorrow. Here we are asked to hold an extended vigil with loss in the well of silence, slowly ripening our sorrow into something dense and gifting to the world. Our ability to drop into this interior world and do the difficult work of metabolizing sorrow is dependent on the community that surrounds us. Even when we are alone, it is necessary to feel the tethers of concern and kindness holding us as we step off into the unknown and encounter the wild edge of sorrow.”
Source: The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
“We will inspire each other to achieve our dreams!”
“We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.”
Source: Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
“We will introduce an electric car by 2015. It will be a completely new vehicle concept for mega-cities. We would also have it developed if, contrary to expectations, it did not turn a profit in its first life cycle.”
“We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.”
“We will join our palms together, fingers intertwined in each other, and look at the stars in the night sky!”
“We will judge others based on their behaviors with little to no understanding or regard for their beliefs or values—standards we may not know, nor typically see. When we do this, things can be taken completely out of context because we are assessing their behavior against our expectations, which are produced from our own personal value system.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact